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01:08.15*** topic/#gllug is Greater London LUG - Next Event Thursday 25th May @1900 (tbc) - Christopher Fraser (Digital Cinema & Linux) and the Great GLLUG Quiz night (There will be *prizes*!!!). http://gllug.org.uk http://planet.gllug.org.uk. Channel stats http://silenceisdefeat.org/~mozrat/gllug
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03:11.54Copeurgh
03:12.40Leedsmorning, and you should really be asleep
03:14.13*** join/#gllug AndrewBlack (n=chatzill@81.2.66.249)
03:19.57AndrewBlackhelp ibot
03:20.06AndrewBlackibot help
03:20.12LeedsAndrewBlack: do you need somebody?
03:20.42Leedsnot just anybody?
03:20.59AndrewBlacknot really.  I meant "ibot help" but somehow got them the wrong way round.
03:21.10AndrewBlackSuffering from insomnia !
03:21.15AndrewBlackHow are things with you
03:21.31Leedsnot bad... it's a lovely day here after the typhoon passed
03:23.25Leedsapart from the insomnia, how are you?
03:23.57AndrewBlackOK - bit stresssed though.  I have changed (at work) from not being clear what  I was meant to be doing to
03:24.08AndrewBlackbeing clear and having too much :-(
03:25.41AndrewBlackare you at work?
03:26.17Leedsof course
03:31.29AndrewBlackJust playing around with lilypond music writing software
04:05.17LeedsI've never really looked at that sort of thing - need to relearn the guitar first
04:06.07AndrewBlackyep - everyone has diff interests and you cant know about everyhing. I like combining my tech interests with classical music
06:17.08CopeLeeds: i haven't slept
06:18.51LeedsCope: hope you're okay
06:21.17Copei have earache
06:21.33LeedsI'm sorry to... hear... that
06:21.55Copebdm tsh :)
06:22.27Leeds:-)
06:23.00*** join/#gllug SlayerXP (n=Tram@ti521110a080-6171.bb.online.no)
06:26.16LeedsSlayerXP: good morning, and what do you know about a Barracuda Networks Spam Firewall?
06:26.29SlayerXPmorning. I know a little bit about them.
06:26.39SlayerXPthey're generally quite a nice bit a kit.
06:27.14Leedsibot change 19000 hkd to gbp
06:27.41Leedshow much is your box? :-)
06:28.04SlayerXPsimilar prices.
06:28.45SlayerXPi don't know if it's still the case but they used to do "per user" pricing
06:28.51SlayerXPyou pay more if you have more users
06:28.56Leedsyou, I assume, do not have a local distributor and support agent in Hong Kong...
06:29.15SlayerXPyou assume correctly.
06:30.00LeedsI don't know if the boss gets a lot more, but I get, I would estimate, well under 15% spam here... but it's starting to annoy him
06:30.15Leedsand - much as I'd like it - I really don't think he'd be up for using your service
06:30.27SlayerXPwhy not?
06:32.07Leedsto be honest, I like the idea of keeping it in-house
06:32.39Leedshe's not going to go for some random bloke he doesn't know, on the other side of the planet, filtering his mail
06:33.20SlayerXP*shrug*  not much I can do about that.
06:33.30Leedsmove to HK, get one small contract!
06:33.39SlayerXPi would suggest you at least try it for a month, as a freebie.
06:35.34Leedsif we could do it in tandem, I think it would be okay, but honestly, I think the 'random bloke on the other side of the planet' factor is a killer
06:37.23SlayerXP$random bloke who you've been aware of for several years, who's been doing anti-spam work for 3 years,  who can provide redundant mail ingress points,  who's service for a couple of years would cost way less than a barracuda box,  who's offering you a freebie trial
06:38.29Leedswho isn't either in-house or a few miles away in HK to shout at when things go wrong
06:38.50LeedsI don't doubt you can do it... but the entire company runs on email, so the boss would have to trust you
06:39.21SlayerXPat no time in 4 years have both of the front end boxes been unavailable.
06:40.42Leedsalso, as we've discussed before, you'd have to be happy handling Chinese mail
06:41.18CopeSlayerXP: who's !- the service of whom
06:41.45SlayerXPLeeds: i've no ethical problems with that. it occurs to me that I have no idea who the spam filters would react :)
06:41.52SlayerXPhow the
06:41.52Copei'm happy handling chinese femail
06:42.01SlayerXPcope ?
06:42.04Copeyes?
06:42.13SlayerXP" !- "  ?
06:42.17Copeoh !=
06:42.18Copesorry
06:42.33SlayerXPwhat you said still makes no sense :)
06:42.55Cope"who's" does not mean "of whom"
06:43.02LeedsCope: yes, we know that...
06:43.11Copewho's service for a couple of years...
06:43.26Copejust because SlayerXP is usually pedantic on apostrophes :)
06:43.49SlayerXPi've not had my morning litre of coffee yet
06:44.59SlayerXPLeeds: send me a bunch of chinese email.  let's see what happens :)
06:45.58Cope:)
06:48.43SlayerXPLeeds: even without doing active spam checking, I bet we could still get 15% down to well under 1%
06:50.06LeedsI'm just looking back through my old mail to find a recent thread in Chinese
06:51.46SlayerXPto my knowledge, a correctly encoded email shouldn't trip anything
06:52.15CopeLeeds: you keep email that you can't read?
06:52.32Copedisk space is cheap, i suppose
06:52.40LeedsSlayerXP: my question is how well you can differentiate between Chinese spam and Chinese non-spam
06:52.50Copeyes, i was wondering that
06:53.28SlayerXPLeeds:  content analysis is actually nearly the last thing the boxes do.  most spam gets caught well before then.
06:54.04LeedsCope: in general, I don't delete anything except spam
06:54.18Copewhere spam is defined as unsolicited email
06:54.25Coperather than email which is of no use to you
06:54.59Leedsspam is mail coming to my work address which is neither work mail nor personal mail, in general
06:55.14Leedsmy mail directory is 3.4gig
06:55.56LeedsSlayerXP: got an address I can send a piece of example spam to?
06:56.02LeedsCope: a large majority is attachments
06:56.08SlayerXPLeeds: martin@hinterlands.org
06:56.10LeedsSlayerXP: or non-spam... :-)
06:56.16SlayerXPmyth:/var/spool/cyrus/mail/m/user/martin# du -sh .
06:56.16SlayerXP533M    .
06:56.34SlayerXPthat's about 4 years of mail, including mailing lists.
06:57.27LeedsSlayerXP: you are not in a position where people are mailing around copies of spreadsheets multiple times a day, or sending around generated PDFs... or - in a sort-of-valid way - detailed design and prototype images for new products
06:57.54SlayerXPi'm usually in a position where the mai server actively refuses to do that kind of thing :)
06:58.06Leedsand where company policy is that all mail should go to as many people as possible
06:59.36SlayerXP500 No.  Do that again and you get a 2Mb quota.
06:59.39SlayerXPerr 550
06:59.49Leeds?
07:00.03SlayerXPhelpful messages to send back to users who send silly emails
07:00.32Leedsthis is the way the company works
07:01.02Copethat's the spirit!
07:01.12Copeyou're beginning to sound like me now!
07:01.23LeedsI can change it as long as I provide a better alternative
07:01.28Cope"yes, i know it is stupid, yes i know it sucks, but it's the way it is..."
07:02.10SlayerXPi worked for a law firm with a marketing department
07:02.29SlayerXPthe marketing department would routinely mail round huge uncompressed TIF files, videos and other media.
07:02.52SlayerXPi introduced them to an exciting new way of sharing data
07:03.08SlayerXPi called it "FTP"
07:05.23Leedsthey call it SMB here - doesn't help... people still email large documents to 15+ people when they only want to show it to one person (mail goes to as many people as possible, remember?)
07:05.49SlayerXPhopefully your mail server does SIS
07:05.57SlayerXPthat's not so bad if so
07:06.07Leedssingle instance storage?
07:06.11SlayerXPyep
07:06.19Leedswow, complete guess :-)
07:06.32LeedsI think mail is mostly storage on the client...
07:09.12SlayerXPmein Bob
07:09.33SlayerXPi just called my satellite TV company to cancel the service and you'll never guess what they said
07:09.46SlayerXP"we'll need your cancellation notice in writing"
07:09.50SlayerXP"email is fine."
07:10.25SlayerXPnormally they want it written in the blood of your first born
07:14.07SlayerXPLeeds: that mail you sent got through without ringing the alarms bells, or launching the ICBMs
07:14.32SlayerXPfascinating content.
07:14.54Copenow to find some chinese spam
07:15.21SlayerXPan openoffice handles the XLS file just fine.
07:15.23SlayerXPanD
07:18.29Copei've been impressed with gnumeric
07:20.10SlayerXPyep, gnumeric is very good indeed.
07:20.18SlayerXPthe windows port is a little clunky
07:21.40Copei mght even try evolution
07:27.13Leedshmm... I should find some spam...
07:28.04SlayerXPLeeds: recycling spam might not be too effective.  spam often is picked up because of where it comes from, and how it's presented to the mail server, than from the actual content.
07:29.40Leedssure
07:32.24SlayerXPLeeds: I reckond less than 1% of spam makes it as far as the content filter.
07:32.50Leedsso it's mainly caught on the basis of where it comes from, how good the smtp is, things like that?
07:34.11SlayerXPgreylisting and dodgy spam engines, yes.
07:34.51SlayerXPlocation only really starts to matter when the mail hits the spam engine, as that does RBL lookups etc.
07:36.53CopeSlayerXP: what has been the biggest challenge in getting people to adopt abmx?
07:37.41SlayerXPCope: everyone, bar one person, who has tried it has signed up.
07:41.49CopeSlayerXP: that doesn't answer the question :)
07:42.13SlayerXPCope:  telling people about it, I guess.
07:42.33CopeSlayerXP: clearly not enough people have signed up, or you'd be wealthy and not needing to leave .no :(
07:42.59SlayerXPin fairness, even if I was making enough cash, I'd still be leaving .no
07:43.13Copeperhaps you should try to market it a bit more?
07:43.31SlayerXPsure, will you be paying for the campaign? :)
07:43.36Copedo some trade shows, etc :)
07:47.45SlayerXPi was thinking about buying some advertising on the tube
07:48.13Leedsdoes that not cost a fortune?
07:48.30SlayerXPvirtually all advertising costs a fortune
07:48.55z00daxif you can find something relevant, people who do pod-casts will do adverts fairly cheap
07:48.57SlayerXPI could send out some spam  suppose :)
07:49.07SlayerXPI
07:50.40CopeSlayerXP: 1 month spam-free free :)
07:50.59SlayerXPantibody-report=# select count(distinct from_address) from abdata  where is_spam is false;
07:50.59SlayerXP<PROTECTED>
07:50.59SlayerXP-------
07:50.59SlayerXP<PROTECTED>
07:51.09SlayerXPthat's 12,000 people to start with :)
07:52.14CopeSlayerXP: i'd help you sell abmx
07:52.28CopeI think it's a good product
07:52.38Copeno but
07:52.57SlayerXPwell, off you go :)
07:53.30Copewell I suppose the but is it would have to be part of my part-time consulting stuff, so wouldn't get mega-slices of my time
07:54.13SlayerXPthat's cool, 30 or 40 hours per work is more than enough
07:55.03SlayerXPper week, I mean
07:56.05Coperight, got to take coffee to daddy, then go to doctor's
07:56.11Copeback circa 1030
08:38.52Leedsbad, bad supplier... do not include 3.5MB of jpg inline!
08:44.10AndrewBlackHad some fun yesterday.  My dad said - can you show me how to unistall my broadband software so I can reinstall it.
08:44.48AndrewBlackWhy do you need to do that - "to change the phone number".  Why does it need to know the phone number - "because the monkey on helpline said it does".
08:45.07AndrewBlacks/the/my/
08:45.32AndrewBlackI found it was all working so no need to do any of this rigmarole ......
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08:58.02stephanb2good morning
09:21.45eyorei've done something stupid
09:21.49eyorei was doing a yum update
09:22.10eyoreand i accidentily pressed ctrl-c during glibc-common upgrade
09:22.29eyorenow i seem to have broken the dependancy tree for everything glibc and up.
09:22.47eyorenow all i get is:
09:22.56eyore--> Running transaction check
09:22.56eyore--> Processing Conflict: glibc-common conflicts glibc > 2.3.5
09:22.57eyore--> Finished Dependency Resolution
09:22.57eyoreError: glibc-common conflicts with glibc > 2.3.5
09:30.34Copeif that has really happened, the yum is shit - surely such upgrades should be atomic.
09:32.26Copeanyway
09:32.28eyoreI doubt dpkg installs are attomic if you ctrl-c half way through an install
09:32.29Copehere's waht you should do:
09:32.55SlayerXPCope: YHM, incidentaly
09:33.00eyoreMSI only started to support unwinding installs relatively recently
09:33.02Coperpm -qa | grep glibc | sort
09:33.20eyoreglibc-2.3.5-10.3
09:33.20eyoreglibc-common-2.3.5-10.3
09:33.20eyoreglibc-common-2.3.6-3
09:33.20eyoreglibc-devel-2.3.5-10.3
09:33.20eyoreglibc-headers-2.3.5-10.3
09:33.21eyoreglibc-kernheaders-2.4-9.1.94
09:33.54Coperpm -e glibc-common-2.3.6-3
09:34.50eyoregenius
09:34.51eyoreta
09:34.54Copewelcome
09:35.13eyorei kept trying to uninstall 2.3.6
09:35.18eyoredon't worry i stopped myself :)
09:40.14CopeSlayerXP: did you omit a zero?
09:40.30SlayerXPerrm, i don't think so
09:41.11SlayerXPno, mail looks right to me
09:41.31Copeok
09:41.34SlayerXPthat's for "average" flows.  
09:42.15SlayerXPyou were expecting a bigger number?
09:42.23Copewas comparing it to the baracuda price
09:42.44SlayerXPthat's for the hosted service.
09:42.55Coperight
09:43.00SlayerXPyou don't buy a chunk of hardware, you rent use of the mail cluster
09:43.10Copequite
09:46.01SlayerXPbut, yes, add a nought for the appliance
09:46.14Copeyes
09:47.22SlayerXPso, make with the customers :)
09:55.29Leedsibot sleep Cope
09:55.33ibotACTION sends Cope to bed without supper
09:55.45Leedswell that's not very nice...
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10:13.08Leedsevening cbz
10:13.29cbzMorning Leeds.
10:15.57Leedshttp://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/4990632.stm - "Eight die as typhoon pounds China"
10:19.05iTronLeeds: Finally made landfall did it.
10:19.51iTronLooks like it's now been downgraded to a tropical storm.
10:20.22Leedsyeah
10:20.44cbzten thousand thundering typhoons!
10:21.03Leedsobviously, they lose power pretty quickly once they hit proper land
10:21.30iTronIndeed. Warm seas == typhoon fuel.
10:22.21iTronThough it looks like this storm's going to head out to sea again and make a beeline for Japan.
10:22.47Leedswhere the Philippines obviously don't count as proper land
10:23.01Leedsnah, I reckon it'll peter out somewhere south of Shanghai
10:23.24iTronTime will tell.
10:23.29JAVhello
10:23.39LeedsJAV: hola
10:23.49iTronGreetings
10:25.57iTronSO, I receievd an email from someone ni our US office, with a forwarded reminder message purportedly from Google demanding payment for $something_expensive which someone@our.domain.address bid on and won. "Is this a scam!?!?" was the plaintive cry heard. "Why yes it is, seeing as Google.USA don't base their US auctions from a server in Taiwan." was the reply.
10:26.31Leedssince when have google.usa run auctions?
10:26.53iTronLet me correct what i just said. s/Google/Ebay/
10:27.17Leedsah, so not *quite* as dumb as at first glance then :-)
10:27.40Leedswould be quite amusing to see scammers create an entirely new Google service
10:27.48iTronIt's easy to get the two confused when you're dehydrated due to having a wee nip or three of whisky last night. ;)
10:28.41iTronAlcohol bad for brain. </homer>
10:29.58iTronSo anyways, I browse to this Taiwanese-pretending-to-be-ebay site, but go to the base address rather than the scam url. Lo and behold, it's a compromised box running PHPBB
10:31.03Leedsphp bad
10:31.44iTronDo I A) Just leave things be and get on with life, or B) Struggle to communicate to some ISP based in Taiwan that one of their customers has been compromised and an eBay scam is running from the fubar'ed machine? The answer is : A. Because I can't be arsed.
10:32.28*** join/#gllug puckman (n=gerard@penguin.thebrewery-london.com)
10:33.55LeedsI'd probably go as far as bunging a copy of it to abuse@saidisp.com.tw
10:34.50SlayerXPi never bother reporting abuse to non-european machines
10:34.56SlayerXPno point
10:36.18Leedsbecause ISPs outside Europe are all staffed by monkeys?  Because none of them speak English?
10:36.34Leedsbecause they're all staffed by FOREIGN-SPEAKING MONKEYS???
10:37.07SlayerXPmerkins are as bad
10:37.14SlayerXPi once had a conversation like this
10:37.30LeedsI would think the phrase FOREIGN-SPEAKING MONKEYS would include (most?) Americans
10:37.40SlayerXP"Hi.  Abuse from one of your machines, logs follow, all times are GMT"
10:38.08SlayerXPWeek later  "What time did these incidents take place?"
10:38.41SlayerXP"all times,  those that appear in every log entry, are GMT.  That's Greenwich Mean Time"
10:39.00SlayerXP"We can find no evidence that this abuse originated from our network"
10:39.22SlayerXP"You see those number seperated by dots?  That's called an IP address. It belongs to you."
10:39.59SlayerXPand that was about the best response I've ever had from a non-european ISP
10:41.54LeedsI wonder about semi-spam... cases where I gave permission but later withdrew it...
10:42.16Leedsfirstly, the "it could take up to 7/10/28 days to remove you from our list" is crap - it should take well under a second
10:42.32Leedssecondly, even with reputable companies, it doesn't always work
10:43.00SlayerXPthat's one reason why abmx does banned senders, and explicit recipient lists.
10:43.03Leedsthirdly, I do wonder if - as is often the case - they are using a third-party mass mail company, if the third-party also purges my address
10:44.29iTronLater this year I will become a FOREIGN-SPEAKING MONKEY myself, after I move to Japan.
10:45.08LeedsiTron: do you speak the Japanese?
10:46.53iTronLeeds: Not as much as I should be able to by now. My wife of coruse is a native speaker, seeing as she originates from those parts. Our 4.5 year son can speak it far better than I can.
10:48.38iTronBest place for me to learn is in Japan, because that'll actually _force_ me to learn the lingo. Not much use not being able to ask for a packet of crisps or what have you if I live there.
10:48.50iTronHeh
10:58.13iTronLunch!
11:18.23stephanb2*lunch!*
11:34.36iTronkeithlard: What? All tentacles and screeching?
11:48.05keithlardquiet today
12:12.24Copeah, keithlard, I've been expecting you... ;)
12:12.50keithlard:)
12:13.26Cope#debian-es
12:13.37rhowemmm, fish & chips
12:13.42Cope#linux-es
12:13.46Copeand ask JAV
12:13.47Cope:)
12:14.48keithlardand #unixmexico and #python-es and #ruby-es (though none of those have anyone alive)
12:15.38keithlardrhowe, where did you get fish & chips from? >:o
12:15.49rhowekeithlard: A chip shop
12:16.14keithlardbring the fish & chips to me
12:16.33rhoweIt's now just chips
12:16.46keithlardthe power of irc compels you!!!
12:17.09rhowe-EGONE
12:19.38keithlardrrr
12:20.34rhoweYou wouldn't have liked it. It wasn't that tasty :P
12:20.46keithlardyou have failed me for the last time, admiral!
12:21.39JAVkeithlard: maybe you should try another net (#linux on irc.irc-hispano.org)
12:21.49SlayerXPbored.
12:23.22JAVmy lug has #linuca on Freenode, but it has activity = 0
12:24.26JAVI can talk in spanish there if you want :D
12:31.40keithlardbueno
12:36.11keithlardpodemos hablar en español aqui pero no creo que todos van comprendernos
12:36.50JAVno problem to me, but it maybe annoy somebody
12:37.10Copeit would be considered bad form
12:37.19Copeunfortunately
12:37.20Cope:(
12:37.38JAVkeithlard: just join #linuca
12:37.52SlayerXPoiga camerareo. cinquo cerverzas por favour. ariba! ariba!
12:38.12Copeinfamy infamy! they've all got in infamy!
12:38.34SlayerXPCope: I'm awaiting the influx of customers breathlessly, btw :)
12:38.48JAVSlayerXP: It's ok... for a drunken german in ibiza :D
12:39.11keithlardyes please
12:39.16SlayerXPmy restaurant spanish is superb
12:39.20Copeoh... beer and very strong painkiller?
12:39.21SlayerXP"la quenta por favour"
12:39.24Copegood mix?
12:39.45keithlardme gustaría una cerveza muy fría y unas tapas
12:40.03keithlardand some dancing babes!
12:40.10SlayerXPsurely "one tapas" is a contradiction in terms
12:40.17Copedos manzanilla frigo por favor?
12:40.24keithlardi don't want to live in a world where i can't have a drink surrounded by dancing babes!
12:40.49Copei want  to drink surrounded by dancing geeks :)
12:40.56Copeoh... i do
12:40.57Cope:)
12:41.39keithlardare we socialising on saturday? your dream could come true then
12:41.52Copekeithlard: i have zero pence
12:41.59Copekeithlard: we can get into london ok
12:42.04Copeand bring packed lunch
12:42.12Copebut can't by beer
12:42.33keithlardhave you got time to brew some before the weekend?
12:43.10CopeI want a new middle ear
12:43.30SlayerXPyou have three ears?
12:43.32JAVlet evolution do it
12:43.36SlayerXPi just have 2, i feel cheated.
12:45.46keithlardcope> if we have a business meeting, i can expense it to bitfield consulting :)
12:50.28keithlardexpenses are great
12:54.16rhowe[FreeCycleLondon] Offered: children's bits & pieces, GU5, could post
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13:25.42iTron0.o
13:25.47iTronLeeds: You did?
13:26.05Leedsyup
13:26.18iTronLeeds: Why?
13:26.20rhoweLeeds: How did that come about?
13:27.02Leedsme not right for the job, job not right for me, me being a lazy git, etc
13:27.24rhoweLeeds: In reverse order of importance? :)
13:27.28SlayerXPLeeds: if I were truely truely evil,  I'd be asking what the chances of an abmx sale were now? :)
13:27.28Leeds3 months notice
13:27.32keithlardshriek
13:27.53rhoweLeeds: Gonna be looking for work in HK, Israel or London?
13:27.53SlayerXPluckily I'm not
13:28.03Leedsrhowe: yes :-)
13:28.53stephanb2rhowe: oh do you want 2 hear some more skype security news from France ?
13:29.03rhowestephanb2: Yeah, why not?
13:29.35rhoweLeeds: "yes" is a very Chinese response to an "x, y or z" question - I think you've been in HK too long :)
13:29.39SlayerXPskype have security now?   cool! :)
13:30.29stephanb2rhowe: i spoke to a french friend y'day, he told me that it is prohibited to use / install skype inside a school or university !
13:30.42rhoweSlayerXP: Did you see the "silver needle in the skype" paper, showing how to use Skype to do a portscan on hosts on the same network as the remote client?
13:30.56SlayerXPnope
13:31.04rhowestephanb2: I'd be suprised if it was allowed in France at all - they have very strict crypto laws
13:31.07rhoweSlayerXP: It was quite a good read
13:31.18rhoweSlayerXP: search for skype on blackhat.com if you're interested
13:31.33SlayerXPrhowe: i've just put it on my list of things to read
13:31.37stephanb2rhowe: some french defense "expert" is also afraid of a special "US gov backdoor" being implemented
13:32.09rhoweLeeds: So are you coming to my wedding then?
13:32.13stephanb2rhowe: as a consequence french gov advises any governmental research lab not to discuss "sensitive" material with skype
13:32.34stephanb2rhowe: this is borderline conspiracy theory...
13:32.34Leedstalking to my mum...
13:32.37rhowestephanb2: Doesn't matter if you discuss or not with it. If Skype's running on your machine, it's vulnerable..
13:33.00stephanb2rhowe: ah well actuall that's a point.
13:47.45Leedswhatever else happens in my life, I will always be able to say that I spent a year working for a bra company in Hong Kong :-)
13:48.20rhoweLeeds: So what will you be doing for the next 3 months, workwise?
13:48.22Leedsand no-one else here will ever be able to say that :-P
13:48.24rhoweLeeds: Tidying up projects?
13:48.36Leedsyeah, pretty much
13:48.40rhoweLeeds: Oh, I dunno about that... to whom do I send a CV? :)
13:48.54Leedsjoe@metexhk.com
13:49.30Leedsmust get some travel done, since I don't think they're likely to enfore leave rules too heavily
13:50.03rhoweLeeds: .jp?
13:50.12Leedsand .sg - they'd be the first two
13:50.29Leeds.sg just because it's a bit different and pretty local...
13:50.40Leeds.jp because, well, it's .jp
13:50.43rhoweLeeds: Hm.. combine the two, if you can fit in a short stopover at .sg on the way to .jp for not much price difference
13:50.52rhoweLeeds: 3 days in Singapore is enough
13:50.59Leedsthey're in different directions! unless I go singapore air to .jp
13:51.49rhoweLeeds: Depending on the airport taxes, you might find it cheaper to go indirect
13:52.16Leedspoint is that I'd be thinking of a weekend - possibly long - in .sg, but slightly longer in .jp
14:03.42Leedsah, good old traditional "I got fired" food - lean cuisine microwave pasta...
14:04.46Leedsthanks for the sympathy, guys...
14:05.08Leedsrhowe: real answer is dunno... I would probably say Israel most likely, followed by HK, followed by UK
14:05.43rhoweLeeds: So I have 3 months to visit you in HK, is that what you're saying?
14:06.02z00daxhowse everyone doing ?
14:06.28Leedsrhowe: yeah, pretty much
14:06.34Leedsz00dax: read up... I got fired this evening
14:06.50z00daxoh! sorry to hear that...
14:06.58rhoweLeeds: It's an expensive time to fly, you do realise that, right? :)
14:06.59Leedsme too...
14:07.06Leedsrhowe: you've had a year!
14:07.07z00daxdo you have something else in the potential pipeline ?
14:07.23Leedsnot a thing - largely came out of the blue
14:07.30rhoweLeeds: That's no time at all!
14:07.34z00daxdamn
14:08.01rhoweLeeds: I'm sure the Chinese govt might be interested in hiring an ex-Solaris hacker. No doubt they've got a project in the works to produce a clone
14:08.24Leedsnot in the sense of being a suprise... I didn't think things were all perfect at work... just in the sense that I wasn't expecting it to come today, in the pub
14:08.43z00daxin the pub ? are you sure its not a bunch of guys having a laugh ?
14:09.26Leedsit was my boss/cousin, and it was for real
14:09.37z00daxhumm...
14:10.16Leedswhoa... friend just blogged that his wife went into labour...
14:10.37rhoweLeeds: Presumably he knew that she was pregnant?
14:10.44Leedsindeed
14:11.00rhoweLeeds: So not a complete suprise then :)
14:11.47Leedsnot so much
14:12.47rhoweStill, not a bad news day
14:13.07cbzyou used to be a solaris kernel person, leeds?
14:13.09rhowewell, some of the news was fairly bad..
14:13.15Leedscbz: I did
14:13.17rhoweYou know what I mean :)
14:13.22Leedssort of, anyway
14:13.30cbzLeeds: What sort of stuff?
14:13.43Leedsrhowe: you're belittling my misery in favour of some sprog?
14:13.47Leedscbz: project janus
14:14.28cbzPresumably you worked for sun at some point?
14:14.38z00daxs/janus/BrandZ/
14:14.42z00dax:)
14:14.44Leedsall of (almost) 5 years
14:14.53Leedsz00dax: no, I never worked on Brand[XZ]
14:15.01cbzInteresting
14:15.06cbzI shall make a note of that for future ;)
14:15.10z00daxdidnt Janus transmorgify into brandz
14:15.42Leedsz00dax: it did... at around the time they laid off the entire Janus team, and after the project had been nicked from us by some Yanks
14:15.58cbzThat always happens in US companies
14:16.04z00daxLeeds: right...
14:16.25z00daxthe _only_ person i know who actually uses brandz seems to think that Janus had better direction and goals
14:16.42Leedsinteresting
14:17.00Leedsalthough, to be fair, it became clear towards the end that Janus wasn't there to be used anyway
14:28.19Leedstime to go drinking... back later
14:30.01z00daxLeeds: see ya
14:30.22rhoweLeeds: commisserations
14:30.41rhoweLeeds: See you sometime before the end of the year, I hope
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14:44.35eyorehow do you set a variables in a bash script and then use it?
14:45.30SlayerXPFOO=bar
14:45.35SlayerXPif ${FOO}
15:17.47keithlardyou need to 'export FOO' for it to be inherited by child processes
15:20.23z00daxand if you export to a non .eu nation - you even get VAT back
15:20.43SlayerXPpoor Tim
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15:24.30ldnblkafternoon all
15:43.55stephanb2afternoon ldnblk
15:46.24stephanb2lead nitrogen boron iodine potassium
15:46.51stephanb2well it would b slightly diferent: LdNBIK
15:47.32ldnblkhi there stephanb2  how's things ?
15:47.35SlayerXPlead is Pb
15:47.47stephanb2bugger me stupid
15:47.47ldnblkthat's right slayerxp
15:47.52SlayerXPfrom the latin plumbum
15:47.54stephanb2im falling asleep
15:48.00SlayerXPwhich is where we get the word "plumber" from
15:48.41stephanb2SlayerXP: oh i didnt know u were a linguist?
15:48.58SlayerXPi;m not
15:49.30stephanb2i did some latin, see... i've forgotten *everything* :'-(
15:49.49stephanb2except the polish word for house
15:51.33eyoreIs there some easy way of logging every command executed in a shell script for debuggin purposes
15:51.59cbzRun the script with sh -x
15:52.20eyoreta
15:52.36eyoredoes bash have that option too?
15:52.41SlayerXPyes
15:52.55SlayerXP/bin/sh opften points to /bin/bash on linuxen
15:52.58SlayerXPoften
15:53.27eyoreyes i think it does
15:53.30eyorebeing stupid sorry
15:54.32cbzIt'll be compatible for an option that old.
16:38.16rhowekeithlard: You'll probably find this interesting: http://www.blackhat.com/presentations/bh-europe-06/bh-eu-06-Ollmann.pdf
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16:53.49eyorei've spent about 30mins pondering why this crontab isn't working
16:54.02eyorefinally realised that 15 is 3 o'clock not 5 o'clock
16:55.13wethrinThe metric brigade hasn't decimalised time yet
16:56.20stephanb2wethrin: most metrication was introduced by napoleonic wars
16:56.34stephanb2time to go home
16:56.37wethrinYes. It's all the fault of the French :)
16:57.02stephanb2btw the sexagesimal system was invented by the babylonians and is damn practical
16:57.17wethrinI know
16:57.19stephanb2because 12 can be divided by 6,4,3,2
16:57.20eyoresounds orgasmic
16:57.29stephanb2unlike 10 by 5,2
16:57.42stephanb2this is why decimal time never got successful
16:57.51antiphaseThat's why pizzas get cut into 12
16:57.58stephanb2and eggs are packed in cartons on 6,12,24...
16:58.11wethrinantiphase: Really? Mine only get cut into 6
16:58.16wethrinBut then, I couldn't possibly eat 12 slices...
16:58.48eyoremy cron task still isn't working
16:59.01eyoredoes this look sane: 02 18 * * * /usr/local/JSpider/bin/runSpider.sh
16:59.03stephanb2on those words, time 2 go home
16:59.19stephanb2cu all l8r
16:59.23eyorel8r
16:59.28stephanb2:-)
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17:00.21wethrineyore: Run it at 18.02 every day?
17:00.30eyoreyes
17:00.34eyorelike in 1 minute
17:01.13wethrinAnd the script runs successfully by hand?
17:01.31eyoreyes
17:01.50eyorethat line is in a file i created in /etc/cron.d
17:01.52eyorecorrect?
17:01.56wethrinno
17:01.56SlayerXPif a script works when run in the shell, but not from cron, it's almost always a path problem
17:02.10eyoreah
17:02.16wethrin/etc/cron.d should have system crontabs, rather than user crontabs
17:02.18eyorei thought i'd put scripts in there before
17:02.22keithlardooh thanks russ
17:02.36eyorewell
17:02.50eyoreshould it work in there?
17:04.14wethrineyore: Just run 'crontab -e' as the user you want the script ro run as
17:04.44eyorewhat file does that go into?
17:05.02eyorei will want to make it redployable.
17:05.37eyoreit really is more a system cron than a user cron
17:05.59Leedsnow, what the fsck am I going to do with my life... in the short term, I'm going to take it to bed... g'night all
17:06.06wethrinnight Leeds
17:06.45wethrineyore: If you put it in cron.d, you need to have 6 fields, not 5
17:06.57wethrinThe user to run the script as preceeds the program name
17:07.45eyoreaha
17:10.02eyorethat might work, i'll let you know in 4 minutes
17:10.04eyore:)
17:11.07rhowehm interesting bit on MPLS http://www.blackhat.com/presentations/bh-europe-06/bh-eu-06-Rey-up.pdf
17:11.40rhoweo.O "Implementing and Detecting An ACPI BIOS Rootkit"
17:15.14eyoreYES!
17:15.38wethrinIt works?
17:17.02eyoreyes
17:17.42eyorei got email notification, spider is go!
17:17.49eyorenow i can go home and have a drink :)
17:18.41wethrinYay!
17:18.50wethrinhm. Almost time for me to be off to a brewery
17:19.28eyorebah, someone is always there to "one up" me.
17:19.31eyore;)
17:21.27wethrinI get free pie too
17:21.35wethrin(at least, I was under the impression it's free)
17:28.51eyore:) home time
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17:36.04z00daxkeithlard!
17:37.16JAVrhowe: intesting papers in blackhat 2006, thanks for remember
17:37.29JAVhello keithlard
17:49.06keithlardhola chico
17:49.31keithlardooh, bios rootkit? excellent
17:49.43keithlardwe're very excited about that automated attacks paper :)
19:13.37rhowekeithlard: I thought you might be :)
19:13.52rhowekeithlard: It doesn't really offer any answers, but it does at least give a nice overview of the general problems
19:13.54keithlardin fact we're undergoing an attack right now! otherwise we'd be reading it ;)
19:14.07rhowekeithlard: You should be watching BBC THREE!
19:14.13rhowekeithlard: Eurovision semifinal
19:15.44keithlardreely?
19:15.47keithlardis it good?
19:16.37Copehello keithlard
19:16.49Copei have PIE
19:16.49rhowekeithlard: It's Bulgaria
19:17.05keithlardhello :)
19:17.19keithlardis it a hot chick?
19:17.30rhowekeithlard: Hm.. there was a weird guy with strange hair and skin
19:17.42rhoweSlovenia!
19:17.48keithlardi may have just bought six hundred quid's worth of guitars
19:18.05keithlardoops
19:18.29keithlardok home time
19:18.36keithlardcope> battleships?
19:18.40rhowekeithlard: BBC3 when you get home, I hope
19:18.46keithlardno tv!
19:19.04keithlardi'll download it later
19:19.23rhowehttp://www.eurovision.tv/ may have streams
19:20.30Copekeithlard: sure
19:20.38Cope2100?
19:21.42Coperhowe: bring jia to hants - we have a eurovision party
19:21.59rhoweCope: Already arranged elsewhere, sorry :(
19:22.22Coperhowe: you me, jia and jue need to hang out one evening :)
19:22.41Copejue is in london, though, so that makes it easy
19:23.05rhoweCope: *nod*
19:23.14boudiccasrhowe; http://www.eurovision.tv/ appears only to have a windows -exectuable for their stream :(
19:23.45keithlardgrrr
19:23.51rhoweboudiccas: hmm
19:24.04rhoweboudiccas: Let's see if we can find a MMS or RTP URL, shall we?
19:24.19Copeyes! let's! goody!
19:25.49Copekeithlard: pie and beer not a good combo?
19:25.53keithlardi want pie and beer!
19:26.13rhowehaha, this song is pants
19:26.16rhoweQuite literally
19:26.22Copelol
19:26.32keithlardi am missing all the fun
19:26.41Copeno tv, no pie, no beer
19:26.57keithlardcannot you guys come up to kentish town and pub with wordtracker folks?
19:27.17Copei'd have to wake william up, and we'd get there at closing time
19:27.22keithlardgraaah
19:29.59rhoweGo Albania!
19:30.21Copeerm, what's the semi final
19:30.31Copeis it for people too sit to get to the final automaticaly?
19:31.51rhoweCope: Yeah
19:32.01Copehow is that defined?
19:44.21keithlardooh, that's good, #debian-es has a google bot
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19:55.44rhoweheh, Poland sure knows how to design outfits
19:55.46rhoweShame they can't sing
19:58.19z00daxrhowe: why would poland want to sing ?
19:58.58rhowez00dax: They've entered the Eurovision
19:59.33z00daxis that whats on ?
19:59.43z00daxI know there is a tv in my house somehwere
19:59.49z00daxis this rason enough to find it ?
20:01.29rhowez00dax: Yes. BBC3
20:02.21z00daxis that on the stock 5 channels ?
20:02.34rhowez00dax: Nope, digital, satellite and cable only
20:02.44z00daxfreeview ?
20:03.11murbmunkyvision!
20:03.29rhowez00dax: *nod*
20:04.48rhoweTurkey's singer looks quite stocky
20:04.57z00daxthink i have one of those boxen - not sure what its working status is
20:06.31rhoweYou're missing Ukraine
20:07.17JAVShakira v2.0
20:09.58JAVrhowe: finland :D
20:10.34rhowehahaha yeah!
20:10.44rhoweThis is the one I've been waiting for
20:11.09JAVheeeey
20:11.22JAVthey have a yamaha motif
20:11.42JAVlittle brother of mine
20:12.30rhowehahaha
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20:12.45rhoweI hope they go through to Saturday
20:12.58stoat_hello - cope has power over me
20:13.00stoat_i am afraid
20:13.11stoat_(all yours now simon)
20:13.14JAVhttp://www.verrire.com/img/snap-La%202-20060518-221027-1.jpeg
20:13.18rhoweIt'll cost them a fortune in makeup, though
20:13.21JAVhttp://www.verrire.com/img/snap-La%202-20060518-221131-1.jpeg
20:13.31rhoweJAV: No GUI for me :(
20:13.45JAVa pair of tv shots
20:14.22JAVand... yes, I need to check that noisy signal
20:15.25Copecome on stoat_
20:15.33stoat_?
20:15.33JAVhttp://www.verrire.com/img/img_2423b.jpg   --> I've already shown you my motif :)
20:15.45Copestoat_: wnated to check you were alive
20:16.45stoat_yes
20:17.08rhoweThat's quite a drum collection
20:18.46Copestoat_: esc+3 gets you here
20:19.19stoat_thanks
20:19.25stoat_back to 4
20:21.07rhowedubya tee eff?
20:23.53Copekeithlard: got to lie down - sinuses, ear etc tooooo painful to be vertical
20:33.34SlayerXPCope: get all my /msgs earlier?
20:36.18Copeaffirmative
20:36.22Copelying down now
20:36.32Copemaybe back later if i cant sleep and if pain goes away
20:37.35rhoweheh, a friend just sent me "Help, my keyboard broke!" by copying+pasting each letter from an email using her mouse
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